What would be your reasoning? Also why would you go for partial @U0525KG62?

Thanks!

my reasoning is that I never really got partial so I don't really understand it... I do however understand anonymous functions.

but @U0525KG62 explanation makes sense to me I have to admit, so maybe I might begin to understand it a bit more

ok thanks! I was similar too @U052852ES

and with the anon function is slightly shorter and that appeals to me as well.

there are two types of people - those who think auto-currying is a great idea and the other, wrong, people

so for me it is more about how I feel about it... nothing particular rationalistic.

I had the same thoughts about the length as well tbh

@U0524B4UW Haha!

to me it seems simpler... as I don't (have to) understand partial

Going to ask a dumb question then, Why is auto-currying good?

you never need partial @U08TUA46M - leads to some very elegant code

to me, partial implies that you are expecting to support multiple arities.

auto-currying probably only works well with static checking though

partial will give you multiple arities, which is often not really what you want

Ok thanks everyone! Appreciate the thoughts 😄

an anonymous function is more explicit about the arguments it expects

scope and context are important though

I’m a big fan of partial. Like @U0525KG62 I think it communicates something. In particular it communicates that the arguments are being applied left to right… i.e. there’s been some thought to the argument order. There are several reasons to prefer one argument order to another, but one reason is that argument order often reflects the time things are known… e.g. you’ll know the config or the database connection, before you know the runtime arguments; so (partial my-f db-connection) communicates that. #(f %1 %2) is easily mistaken for #(f %2 %1) in the noise.

I like to think about argument order when writing functions, and partial helps you do that, and apply some consistency.

I think for things like db conns that I don't know all the args for yet I even use partials in python now tbh. However I see the merit of anon fns and use them if there's a need to be super declarative

I guess my gut use of partial is probably from reading your code then Rick haha

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Sooooo this appears to be the main “complaint” three drummers is too much, I’m not convinced. There are some 81/84 tunes that don’t completely work for me….. but I’d still go and see them live if I could.